darkSpyro

Will we need legendary, dark or nitro vehicles to be a competitive online racer?, assuming the variants have better stats.
I havnt been able to find any info on vehicle stats yet(if you have please share).

Being the first skylanders game that has a proper online competitive multiplayer game included, I actually might care about variants now lol.

will the online leaderboards (if this game does that) just be filled with variants?

Is it good/bad that variants/"rarer toys" may actually provide you with a competitive edge now? as apposed to just being able to be a slightly better fighter in story and arena modes like previous games.

what are your thoughts?

Even Legendary/Dark Skylanders can match up with regular ones depending on skills and attacks,and there are still mods around. Unless they were careless with balancing,it'll probably only be easier to master compared to regular vehicles but not exactly impossible to compete with.

Nah. As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between regular and variant vehicles are the paint jobs.

Quote: AdamGregory03

Nah. As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between regular and variant vehicles are the paint jobs.

Yeah, the stats have been exactly the same between variants since Giants (Armor, and Speed etc, might have had minor differences but just to make them different and not better.

Probably not. Mods can easily change the stats too.

I say it is a slim to none chance of it happening, trap team's skylander variants have different health caps for example dark snap shot's health is 1213 while the standard is 902 with a small difference in armor. It would be cool to see the trend carry on into superchargers only the 20th will answer that for us all.

All the variants (even Legendary) are batter in some stats, but worse in others, to give balance. So, a advantage between a vehicle and a variant doesn't exist.

Quote: Crash10

All the variants (even Legendary) are batter in some stats, but worse in others, to give balance. So, a advantage between a vehicle and a variant doesn't exist.

Well, technically it's not that simple. When an online meta-game forms it will typically favor certain stat distributions over others based on the way people are playing the game. But what that means is we can't know for certain what vehicles and variants will be most effective. Maybe in many cases the default version will be the preferred one.

According to my experience, online gaming is usually very balanced, even considering the "who has paid more" variable. In case these unbalances happens, they usually fix it quite fast with a patch. Keep in mind, they want the online to be competitive, so players stick to it.

Warning: Online gaming is usually far more difficult than main campaign/storyline modes,so be prepare to have patience.

Quote: angelg

According to my experience, online gaming is usually very balanced, even considering the "who has paid more" variable. In case these unbalances happens, they usually fix it quite fast with a patch. Keep in mind, they want the online to be competitive, so players stick to it.

Warning: Online gaming is usually far more difficult than main campaign/storyline modes,so be prepare to have patience.

Cough Smash Cough

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Quote: angelg

According to my experience, online gaming is usually very balanced, even considering the "who has paid more" variable. In case these unbalances happens, they usually fix it quite fast with a patch. Keep in mind, they want the online to be competitive, so players stick to it.

Warning: Online gaming is usually far more difficult than main campaign/storyline modes,so be prepare to have patience.

Cough Smash Cough

lol yeah, that's the way it is. You can' t distract yourself, not even for a milisecond.

Quote: Crash10

All the variants (even Legendary) are batter in some stats, but worse in others, to give balance. So, a advantage between a vehicle and a variant doesn't exist.

That's not true , Some variants are just minor stat rearrangements , but a lot just simply have better stats then the original character . I'm pretty sure basically all legendarily do, that's the point of them.

E.g. Level 1 unupgraded stats
Bushwhack
Max health 290
Defense 18
Speed 60
Critical 60

Legendary bushwhack
Max health 300
Armor 30
Speed 60
Crit 80


Cobra cadabra
Max health 290
Armor 36
Speed 70
Crit 40

King cobra cadabra
Max health 290
Armor 48
Speed 70
Crit 60

These increases in stats, especially critical hit , do give a decent advantage in game .

So if vehicles follow suit and have a natural crease in speed etc , why wouldn't we expect legendary sun runner to have a noticeable edge over the regular sun runner vehicle ? Even with player specific mods, the vehicle with the highest base stats is going to have a natural advantage.

I agree on diversity. MK Wii's Funky Kong with Flame Rider span got old really quickly. I think we will see loads of diversity. I except only the Starter pack Viechles and newest released Viechles to be spammed for obvious reasons.

People can already compare some of it with Golden Hot Streak already.

So now that the game is out, has anyone compared the stats of the different Hot Streaks? We have four of them now: Normal, E3, Dark, and Golden. Which one's the best?